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Shallotte police charged the following people and investigated the following incidents last week.

•Police charged Jerry Wayne Simmons Jr., 38, of 42779 Babson Road, Ash, with driving while impaired at the intersection of Whiteville Road and Ruby Way. He was taken to Brunswick County Detention Center.

The K-9 enforcement team answers calls, conducts driver’s license checkpoints and assists with other agencies when K-9s are needed.

From Feb. 23- March 1, deputies with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Enforcement Team answered 15 calls and issued eight uniformed citations.

K-9 deputies patrolled and set up driver’s license checkpoints in the following areas: Longwood, Seashore Road and N.C. 133. Communities patrolled include Riverview, Brunswick Plantation, The Farm, Magnolia Greens, Waterford, Wildwood and The Arbors.

The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county. The ACE team conducts driving while impaired, driver’s license and criminal information checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances. The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.

The Brunswick County Grand Jury under the direction of Judge Ola Lewis with prosecutor Rex Gore and courtroom clerk Kay Fowler returned the following indictments during a Superior Court session on Feb. 16: